Coin-container.



E. PUSINELLI.

COIN CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FIVLED MAR. 5, 1915.

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E. PUSINELLL COIN CONTAINER.

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COIN-CONTAINER.

Application filed March 5, 1915.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ERIOH PUsINELLI, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CoinContainers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in coin containers and particularly such as may be combined with articles of personal adornment and wear.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide means for carrying the smaller coins, as pennies, dimes, and nickels, in a particularly convenient manner and in which they are readily accessible and at the same time secured against accident or loss.

Another object is to combine with the coin container, a bracelet such as are commonly worn by ladies and gentlemen. 4 v

A. further object is to provide such containing means in a useful design, subject to ornament and which may be produced at a moderate cost.

These and other objects, such as are more fully described, areattained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a general perspective view of the coin holder showing its application and purpose. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, the cover being removed. Fig. 3 is a similar plan view showing the cover in position. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 44 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a side view of the same. Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmental view of the cover and frame. Fig. 7 is a view showing the method of attaching the holder to the bracelet. Fig. 8 is a plan view showing a modification in construction. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the same, the cover being shown in position. Fig. 10 is a"sectional view taken on line 1010 of Fig. 9. Fig. 11 is a front view of the same.

As will be obvious from an inspection of the drawings this device is adapted to be applied to the wrist of the wearer in the same manner as certain other bracelets containing watches, vanity boxes and other articles of personal use or adornment, the coins being readily accessible and operatable by the other hand of the wearer.

In the device as indicated, the bracelet Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. "7, 1915.

Serial No. 12,262.

and its attaching means may be of any size whatever, preferably being so arranged as to be flexibly held in position the holder bemg maintained in such manner as to be free from release through inadvertent action or movement of the wearers hand.

To the outer or exposed part of the bracelet at the center is positioned the coin cona tainer, the same being of thin construction so as to interfere as little as possible with the convenience of the wearer. In conformity therefore the device is contrived to contain only suflicient coins for immediate use, such as car-fares, papers, magazines and the like, requiring but 7 a relatively small expenditure, although obviously the container can be made as large as may be considered desirable.

The device shown is intended to hold pennies, nickels and dimes, and also the smaller coins as used in foreign countries, more readily and speedily accessible than where it is necessary to open a purse and extract money therefrom, the coin desired becoming immediately accessible and without disturbing the others within the container. Obviously it is equally convenient to insert coins in their proper place where they are held without danger of loss or displacement.

The bracelet 10 may have one end 11 permanently engaged with the wall of the receptacle, the other end 12 having a snap fastening 13 as shown, or both may be securely and permanently engaged with the walls as may be desired.

The Walls 15 are turned inward, as at 16, and. joined by semicircular members 17 forming individual compartments 18 for the several coins which are pressed outwardly by spirally wound springs 19 against a fixed cover plate 20 provided with slotted openings 21 extending inward from the edge directly over the coin compartments 18, the openings being of lesser magnitude than the coins, the walls and the springs all' being afiixed to a base plate 22.

A revoluble cover 23 is pivoted to the fixed cover in such manner that the opening 24 therein may be brought into registration with any of the openings 21, permitting the entrance of a finger in sliding the coin outward so as to be grasped by the thumb and finger.

In order that correct registration of the openings may be effected and also that the revoluble cover may be held in any of its adjusted positions, including that of non-" delivery, a, plurality of depressions 25, are

engage and normally hold the cover either in operative position, allowing anyselected coin to be withdrawn or in such position as to revent withdrawal as shown in Fig. 3.

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inclusive, the bracelet is engaged in, a simi lar manner with the walls wh ch are secured to the base 22 but the partition Walls 28 are free at their outer endsand formed of spring material 111 such manner as to embrace the several coins, holding them against displacement, and dispensing with the push e springs entirely. I

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, Having thus described my invention'and ascertained the manner of its operations and nse, what I claim as new and desire to s e cure by Letters Patent is:--'

bined therewith, resilient walls forming compartments in said receptacle and a 1'0 tatable cover pivoted centrally one said receptacle, said cover having arr-opening reg istrable with any of the mentioned compartments.

2. A wrist carried coin holder'comprising a bracelet, athin 'circnlar receptacle formed 7 I, 1 therewith, partitions Withinsaid receptacle e attached at the'center thereof andfree at their outer ends forming independent coin holders; a cover rotatably monnted'on said receptacle, said cover having a single open slot registrable with any of the coin holders and means for resiliently maintaining said cover in such registered position.

3. A wrist carried coin holder comprising a bracelet, a thin circular container combined therewith, interior walls in said container forming compartments having openings towardthe periphery of said container, the walls being slightly contracted near said openings, a cover rotatably mounted on said container having a recessed flanged edge surrounding said cover, and engaging the "Walls of said container, the recess being reg-5 istrable withany of the said openings, said cover having'a slot inwardly from the recess through which coins are operable. e

I 4.- A Wrist; carried coin holder comprising 'abracelet, a com receptacle containing com partinents combined therewith, a fixed cover I, p having recesses registering with the men- 1. A. Wrist carried holder comprisingabracelet, a shallow annular receptacle comtioned compartments, a movable cover rotatably engaged with said fixed cover and ineans for limitedly restraining the movement of said movable cover.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this twenty-fourth day of ebruary A. D. 1915.

, I ERICH PUSINELLI.

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Semen, I

I LULU A. KOHLMALN. 

